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there are a number of important things that separate a and D from Intel in the CPU market these days here are just a few product called thread Ripper a MDF Intel no gigantic package AMD yet Intel no debuted LTX MDS Intel no but if the name and the sheer size and girth of AMD's new socket TR for platform isn't enough to sell you on it then stick around because we're about to open it up and see if what's inside Rip's teen blue a new one the be quiet dark bass pro 900 s modular design supports a variety of different layouts and configurations click on the link in the video description to learn more meet thread Ripper AMD's latest and greatest in more ways than one release for the Zen microarchitecture that threatens to hit Intel where it hurts the high-end desktop and workstation this is a really big deal because the last time amv had any punching power in this weight class Opterons we're still a thing people wanted to buy and you could still get a decent AGP graphics card it can be argued that rise in 7 positioned against the core i7 6900 k had a lot of appeal but it lacked per thread performance and more importantly perhaps the many PCI Express Lanes that professionals have come to rely on while thread Ripper is actually clocked similarly to rise in 7 and makes use of the same modular ccac's design and infinity fabric interconnect by amping it up to 4 CC X's across 2 dies we now get a total of 64 PCI Express Lanes that is 20 more than Intel shiny new core I 9 and even retton's Intel Xeon server processors who currently enjoy just four more lanes than their core i9 counterparts and in a world where GPUs are critical to high-end compute performance like rendering and scientific research 64 lanes gets you high speed connections to a lot of them three GPUs by themselves at 16x speeds would saturate a core I nine or Xeon completely while on a thread Ripper based system you're going to have room to spare to be fair to Intel their rationale is that there's not many scenarios where this is a big issue but AMD's betting and we believe they're right on nvme storage high speed networking and high performance external accelerators even GPUs becoming more and more common as time goes on the with that said there is no word yet on Thunderbolt support in any AMD ecosystem what is supported on all AMD Xen based platforms though are the usual suspects like sin semi precision boost and XF are which allows Red River to determine the optimal performance state voltage and power limits on a millisecond scale and even boost performance further if the cooling is good enough old news perhaps but it's an important distinction from Team Blue whose high end desktop and Xeon processors have traditionally led a generation behind their mainstream chips in terms of power management well alright then Linus thanks for the recap tell us something we don't know we'll get to that first a closer look at the chips launching today the 1950 X clocks in a whopping 16 cores and 32 threads with a massive 40 megabytes of cache it achieves this by gluing together two Zen dies of two CC exes each what's perhaps even more interesting is its little brother the 1920 X which still enjoys a numbers advantage over the more expensive Rai 979 hundred ex at 12 cores 24 threads and still 64 PCIe lanes so we slotted both of them quite literally this new mounting mechanism is banaynays into an asus zenith extreme with 32 gigs of trident zr gb ram and a thermal take ring RGB cooler as for competition all three of our other test benches will be represented x2 99 z 270 and x3 70 and as for performance well surprisingly our 1950 X actually beat out the competition in rise of the Tomb Raider and Deus Ex mankind divided but then fell well behind the pack along with the 1920 X in cs:go not quite sure why that would be but it pulls up alongside team blue again in our synthetics so maybe we'll chalk it up to the ongoing game engine optimization for risin that AMD has been shouting out or just another source engine quark to throw in the pile moving on to productivity benchmarks this is where it gets really interesting while our synthetics show thread Ripert more or less trading blows with the core i9 even in multi-threaded workloads when we get into rendering with Cinebench r15 and blender our 12 core 1920 x is competitive with the core I 970 900 X and our 1950 X is way out front like by a lot our 2 thread Ripper CPUs also had the lowest performance drop during our combined streaming and local recording test with OBS in cs:go beautiful so what's the catch Linus does it light up like a roman candle do we need a pocket nuclear reactor to power it well if you're overclocking actually maybe more on that to come but at stock speed thread Ripper manages this kind of multi-threading performance at roughly a dozen more watts and ten more degrees under synthetic load compared to the core I nine and at these prices the value proposition especially for professionals is outstanding for gamers unless you're streaming or 3d rendering at the same time your gaming red ripper isn't going to be the best value but for pros it's frankly starting to look like a no-brainer if your workload relies on multi-threading performance or lots of adding cards now it remains to be seen how team blue will react if at all but given their negative press against Andy's epic and thread Ripper products for data center and workstation use it's safe to say they're beginning to feel a little hot under the collar but that's okay until Andy's got a red ripper that can help you with that get it to joke you could rip the fabric whoa our buddies at cable Mod bought an LT T integration business must be good and for good reason they're great people and they make great products and they've got a new product to announce today they're sleeving kits for a iOS they let you add the same cable on vibrant colors to your all-in-one liquid cooler that you previously could on your cables and they are color matched so your aio tubing can actually match your mod mesh cables installation is super easy you don't have to disassemble your cooler or anything like that you just wrap mod wraps leaving around your a i/o tubing and complete the look with the included fastening clips so check them out and maybe by one by one at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys that this video suck you know what to do but it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description also linked in the description of our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join